"Free Akhil", say KMSS leader's wife & AJP chief on Facebook; posts go viral

GUWAHATI: After the Supreme Court's decision to not hear the peasant leader Akhil Gogoi's bail plea, his wife Geetashree Tamuly took to Facebook to express her anguish and lamented "injustice" against her husband. Likewise, Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) chief Lurin Jyoti Gogoi also took to the platform to raise "free Akhil" pleas once again. Both posts have been 'shared' and 'liked' by tons of netizens.

"Where there seems to be no way, God will make one", Tamuly wrote in a long Facebook post yesterday after the Supreme Court's verdict became public.

"The roads are closed now. They have been kept shut. In Indian democracy, the Supreme Court was our last go-to place to seek justice. If the Court says it doesn't have time to listen, that it doesn't need to listen, then where will we go? Do we bang our heads on the closed doors that have been shut by the powerful hands?," Tamuly further added, attacking the "powerful ones" who have orchestrated Akhil's incarceration.

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"What about a citizen's right? Where will the general public go? Probably today onwards we have to just think and not speak at all. May you be blessed, the invisible powerful ones... Whoever wins, they are hailed. From east to west, north to south, from every side they bow to you and worship," she further wrote in her post.

Meanwhile, Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) leader Lurin Jyoti Gogoi, whose party recently stitched an alliance with the Akhil led 'Raijor Dal', demanded the government to release him at the earliest.

Taking to Facebook, Lurin wrote, "For a long time, the government has kept Akhil Gogoi in jail. Akhil Gogoi's bail application has been rejected again. Akhil Gogoi's mother is sick today. Even the mother's heartfelt call waiting to hear the voice of her son is not able to bring the permission of the drunk government.

"If the Delhi Dispur government has humanity left if the government has a responsibility towards the race - then I demand to release Akhil Gogoi who is imprisoned," he added.